HBA-LCA H.B. 3474 76(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 3474 By: Reyna, Arthur Public Education 3/25/1999 Introduced BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Under current law, a school district that requires its students to wear uniforms must provide uniforms to students classified as educationally disadvantaged (students who qualify for the free or reducedcost lunch program). This stipulation places a financial burden on districts with a large population of students who qualify as educationally disadvantaged. H.B. 3474 redefines the student population to whom the district must provide uniforms as those students whose parents or guardians receive welfare or unemployment benefits. This bill eases the financial burden on districts with a large population of students who are educationally disadvantaged, but who wish to adopt a school uniform system. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 11.162(b), Education Code, to provides that the rules adopted by a board of trustees of a school district requiring school uniforms must designate a source of funding for providing uniforms to students living with parents or legal guardians who receive welfare or unemployment benefits, rather than students who are educationally disadvantaged. SECTION 2. Provides that this Act applies with the beginning of the 1999-2000 school year. SECTION 3. Emergency clause.